Friday, May 2, 2008

Blogging Around

I started reading Demon Moon and realized that Savi and Colin are featured in Demon Angel. Gasp! I must read Demon Angel first. I can't stand reading a book out of order. Plus I need a better grasp on the world Brook is building. So yeah, Demon Moon must wait.

While blogging around I came across some fun stuff I must share.

Meriam from Rape and Adverbs has a great post up about women in fiction and the definition of a femme fatale. After much thought I couldn't come up with a heroine that I've read that would count as a femme fatale, maybe you can?

See No Evil by Allison BrennanBloodstream by Tess GerritsenYou Slay Me by Katie MacAlisterThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldNoone Heard Her Scream by Jordan DaneThe God of Animals by Aryn KyleAway by Amy BloomThe Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk KidConfessions of a Wicked Woman by Susanna CarrHands on by Amie StewartLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Cop by Cara Summers (Blaze)Packed with Pleasure by Lori Wilde (Blaze)

Katiebabs from Ramblings on Romance will be posting a review of Lover Enshrined this weekend. I'm eager for this review, especially since J.R. Ward's not giving out another excerpt for this book before its release. Apparently sharing another taste of the book will give away too much. :(

On a much happier note, C.L. Wilson has an excerpt up for the upcoming King of Sword and Sky. It promises to be everything that the previous two were, nothing short of great.

I'm like you - it would kill me not to start from the beginning. Demon Angel is good, but I did lose patience with it at times. Definitely, I enjoyed Demon Moon a whole lot more. Cloin and Savi are extremely strong and personable characters.

I can't wait to hear what you think.

Re: femme fatales, I'm having a hard time, too. So far we have Babs from An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer. I think the Tamara character in Shannon McKenna's McCloud Brothers' series has some of the traits (but I suspect she'll be an entirely different, watered down creature in her own book). And that's it!

Alice, if you're talking about Meljean Brook's books I haven't read them either, but I hear that they are really good.

Meriam, I am still trying to come up with a femme fatale, no luck so far.

I do think that it would take an awesome writer to execute a really good femme fatale. They would not only have to make her, dominant and in control of her sexuality, they would also have to make her believably vulnerable.

That doesn't seem like an easy combo to undertake.

You are most welcome, Katie.

Nath, I'm eager for DA. I read the excerpt for it and now I can't wait for the book to arrive.